October '04 babies - Roll call!

[florenceuk]

OK, here is the list I have so far:

Eyelash (age 36) - DS3 arrived 5 October
Toots (age 37) - DD1 3 - DD2 arrived 5 October
Cazzybabs - DD born 7 October
sooz31 - DD arrived 7 October
Distracted - DS arrived 9 October
florenceuk (age 38) - DS 3 - DD arrived 13 October
Huppa, (age 37) dd now 21months - DS born 14 October
Bibiboo (age 25) DD arrived 15 October
Rickman - DS arrived 16 October
geoteach (age 33) - ds1 3 dd 10 months, DS2 born 16 October
Nailpolish - DD2 arrived 17 October
Piglit (age 36) - DS born 19 October
Miffy2 (age 35) - 22nd October dd 5 DS1 2 - DS2 arrived 22 October
Beansprout (age 35???) - 1 dsd (16). DS born 25 October
Bellie - DD arrived 30 October
Turtle35 (age 35) - DD arrived 31 October

I've taken this from the old pregnancy thread so there are some odd bits of info floating round eg age and other children. Excuse me if I've got any of this wrong, as my sleep-deprived brain barely capable of putting this list together! Any amendments please speak now, and we can start the new thread!

Geogteach - don't know.. is it a joke? Ah, sadly not....

I wish

Blimey, leaving your house must be like the retreat from Rome...

Geogteach - sounds like getting out is really tough at the moment Hope they've got some videos they like

dd2 is very rolly, spends lots of time with her legs in the air then over to the side. Hand or fingers in mouth loads, time to get the teetha in already! Mind you, dd1 had her first tooth at just over four months. Up three times last night, then in intervening two hours had a nightmare about the baby escaping from the car...traffic etc... Luckily I got straight on with calming myself down and dropped back off. dd1 and 2 are watching Sesame Street. Telly's alright for tiny babies, as long as it's Big Bird and Bert and Ernie, tell my I read that somewhere? .

Finally, just checked out my butt in the mirror. My left buttock seems to have a new southwards facing chunk on it. Soooo a good look Mind you, new washing machine really is as good as I'd hoped. It gets things really clean, and much drier than last one. Life gives, life takes away,eh?

Well I survived the 4 days without dh around, but was totally knackered last night.
Rickman if you read this, I really don´t know how you do it on your own all the time - I hope you´ve got lots of people around you can call on for help.

For any of you first time mums out there I suggest you don´t read the "Terrible twos trauma group" thread. - just enjoy your babies as they are now .
For the rest of us at least it´s consoling to realise we´re not alone with our tantruming toddlers.

baba had her 2nd jab injection and was fine, only cried a little tiny bit so i picked her up and was holding her then she start to gab at a poster that was on the wall behind me!. baba got weighed and is now 16lbs 8oz - crikey! , i can just about to hold her as she cant wait to start walking as she loves it so im looking for a walker very soon, she will be VERY happy

huppa - i know what you mean about single parent as i can only do it for 24 hours and then im knackered for the rest of the week . i would give out a award for single parent for being cool!

Hi - dd has been full of beans and wide awake all day every day for the past week now which is fun trying to gert anything done!! Even when we have been out in the car she wakes the minute I open the door! I get about 10 mins to do anything which is as long as she can amuse herself in the playgym.
Toots - dd is also stuffing her hand iun her mouth at every opportunity do you really think teeth are on their way?
Geogteach - sounds like a struugle to get out the door - am dead impressed that you manage it!
Biglips I am in surrey

Bellie - that sounds a bit full on, poor you! You know my advice.... give up trying to do the ironing I know some babies do the hand in mouth thing and teeth don't show up for 3 or more months, but they do move in the jaw and cause discomfort, sometimes not long before they show, and sometimes ages.

Mel is in the bouncer, but is more interested in making long strings of drool fall on the floor. My kind of gal

Ironing? What ironing?!
Bean is also favouring the cram-hand-in-mouth-and-dribble-for-England look but I have decided that it cannot possibly be teething on the basis that I cannot stand it yet.

I recommend this approach to you all.

fraid i'm not a stay at home sort of a girl so its grin and bear it or single buggy and sling at the moment. Think we're doing the teeth thing here too, hope not as I have never fancied feeding a baby with teeth and was hoping to keep it up for a while yet. On the food front, DS does have a bottle if I need to leave him, how much do your babies have in a bottle (if relevant)? I now he is of the opinion that I don't give him enough, just wondered if I am short changing him?
Bellie definately give up the ironing, preferably get a cleaner then get on with being a slob like me

baba had been putting her hand, and also fingers, in mouth since she was 6 weeks old and if she is close to my hand she suck and dribble on it too. Now she starting to put her thumb in her mouth (she doesnt like dummy) but not sucking but chewing!.

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rickman - when was the last time your baba got weighed? as mine was last thurs

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Hi everyone. Feeling a bit perkier as DD woke at 12, 3 and 6 last night - a vast improvement on the past week, hopefully it was unrelated to the towelling grobag as that's what's going on holiday with us. Still it's rubbish isn't it! Toots, DD does not grumble, she screams very very loudly so it is hard to ignore. I am so much chirpier though, today I went a whole day without yelling at DS - miracle!

DD also bringing things to her mouth a lot, I thought it was just because she'd worked out she could? Lots of cooing and burbling going on when she is happy. Also, shame on me, tonight was the first night she'd had her very own book (Babies first songs - tinny musical versions of nursery rhymes) and she loved it! She also loves watching TV, and I figure she just likes the patterns. Actually we didn't get a TV until DS was 18mths old, and he is now the biggest TV addict around - absolutely glued. There must be a moral in there somewhere.

With you on the ignoring teething approach bean - and defionately coming round to the way of thinking that I should get a cleaner - although knowing me I would clean before they got here!

Glad to hear you feeling perkier Florence!

Geogteach - I make 6oz up (which when mixed is more like 7oz) - dd will ususally take one entire bottle and then for the others will leave one oz or less each feed if that makes sense! Thanks for the email about baby yoga

rickman - thats a good size that

dd2 rubbernecks the telly the whole time while I'm trying to feed her!

everytime the TV is turned on, i put baba is her bouncer and face her toward the TV, she gabs thru the whole time - i put Cbeebies on for her as its all colourful

Teething! I haven't even considered it as a possibility until at least 6 months. Everytime DH says DS is teething after a big drool session, I'm like "no darling that's months away". DS is just starting to sleep through the night, I was actually in bed for an entire 8hrs last night, teething will only take that away from me. Nature can be very cruel some times, just when you think you've got this baby thing sussed, it throws something new at you.

Def agree about having cleaner, if it wasn't for our cleaner nicknamed Magda the Magnificent, I think that our place would have disintegrated into one big dust and mould pit after DS was born. She only comes once a week but what a difference it makes.

Geogtech I make about 7oz as well when making a bottle. DS is on 50/50 breast and bottle and he's starting to prefer bottle to me. And if teething is just around the corner, then it will be a quick jump to 100% bottle.

Rickman understand about vacs. We eventually had them done, but still had some misgivings about the whole process.

I think Grace is strating to teeth too (but I am sure there will be no teeth for a while - just things starting to move)...she is dribbley and sometimes seems to cry for no reason.

Am really p**d with nursery..they told me they have a place for Grace now rather than in March when I wanted it. This is doubly annoying because everyone I spoke to said ohh you already have a child already you will get the start date you wanted AND I really wanted to go back to work when grace was 5 months because last time I had to go back when Isabelle was only 3 months which was too little it was awful AND I paid for Isabelle's place for 6 months before she needed it to guarentee a place...so I think I will just have to hold my nerve and hope there will be a place when I need it.

Anyway hope this makes sense I am being distracted by a little vioce saying, "I want Thomas" (her new DVD).

Morning Everyone.
Teething, nooo - too hideous.
Michmash, did you have any trouble getting your ds onto the bottle, did you do it fairly early on? I am craving sleep and getting more grouchy every day as I never get more than 4 hours on the trot. Have tried to give ds a bottle a couple of times as I would like him to have a bottle at least at night now and he screamed blue murder - I just gave up and whipped the boob out.

Hi Beaker, I put DS on to a bottle at week 2 only because DH wanted to do early morning feeds so that he could participate and I could get some sleep (god I love that man! ) so baby was introduced very early to the concept that bottle and breast are both good. I tried expressing milk for the bottle but found it all too difficult and also discovered that I wasn't producing lots of milk, so introduced goats milk formula as I had been advised that other than donkey's milk, it is close to breast milk in both make-up and taste. To make up for the loss of omegas I put 1 tsp of flax oil in one bottle a day. I also use the Dr Brown bottles as the nipple is quite soft. There's a bit more to it but I think that I've probably bored the socks off everyone else so please feel free to call me if you want to discuss or we can talk about next week. I've got a friend in Glasgow going through the same thing and it's a real battle of wills in her house at the moment and I think that the baby is winning.

Crazybabs, what a nightmare with the nursery. If you already have one child there, surely they must be able to accommodate you in March in the interest of keeping sibblings together.